When you make plans with friends or coworkers during the day, it's easy to forget to mention them to your significant other once you get home. To avoid confusion and ruined dinner plans, try sending your partner a calendar invitation to any events that will keep you away from home.

Most of us add social plans to our calendars anyway, so inviting a significant other, even if they aren't supposed to attend, is a hassle-free way of making sure they don't make any special plans during the same time slot.

While there are some dedicated solutions and shared calendar apps designed to solve this problem, sending event invitations through your stock calendar app requires no special set up, and is dead simple for non-geeks to understand.